The Secrets We Keep

Reviewed by: Sally Holt - Raymond Village Library, Raymond, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: November 17, 2015

Review

17 year old Maddy and Ella are twins and are opposites. Maddy is popular, a great dresser and has a boyfriend anyone would envy. Ella is fine about that as she prefers to be alone with her sketchpad and her friend Josh.

Maddy goes to pick up her sister at a party late one rainy nite and during a fight on the way home Ella crashes Maddy's car into a tree and Maddy dies. When Ella awakens she finds that everyone thinks she is Maddy. She plays along for a quite a while and discovers that her sister has many secrets she was not aware of.

I found this to be a quick read with depth and well-developed characters. Recommend this book for reluctant readers as I felt I could not put it down. It may be of interest to a teen reader to see concretely in this YA novel how sometimes "things don't appear as they seem." Is someone who is popular always happy?

Overall Book Score: very good